From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:52:55 GMT
Subject: Re: git stash takes excessively long when many untracked files present
Message-ID: <7vmwolwk94.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1fc732a7-6b63-4d75-960f-0b1c6cf9c70e@email.android.com>

Anders Darander <anders.darander@gmail.com> writes:

>>> Do anyone have any better idea on how to approach this?
>>
>>Teaching "ls-files" to leave early once it seens even a single
>>output is probably a possibility.
>
> Would that mean that we're able to fail early?

Heh, good point.  "Leave once you find one path" does not help the
most common "sane" case where you do not kill any path, so it does
not help us at all.